MOSCOW. May 19 (Interfax) - Head of the Russian Federation Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin at a meeting with Polish Public Prosecutor Adrzej Seremet and Chief Military Prosecutor Krzysztof Parulski proposed a plan of further joint action to investigate the 2010 crash of the Polish presidential jet in Smolensk.
"The meeting mulled the possibility of producing the original recordings of the flight recorders from the crashed Polish Tupolev Tu-154M airliner to Polish experts for examination in Moscow together with Russian experts and in the presence of investigators from the Investigative Committee," official spokesman for the Investigative Committee Vladimir Markin told Interfax on Wednesday.
Russian investigators also invited Polish officials to examine the fragments of the crashed airliner at Smolensk Severny airdrome before the completion of the investigation and to consider their transfer to the Polish side.
The meeting was attended by top officials of the Investigative Committee and investigators in charge of investigation of the criminal case opened in relation to the air crash.
The sides also discussed matters related to the mutual fulfillment of queries for legal assistance.
The Polish side was also notified that the criminal investigation had established that the identification of bodies of three victims of the crash by Polis representatives had been refuted by the results of a genetic study conducted by Russian experts. More detailed information to this end was handed over to the Polish prosecutors.
A Tupolev Tu-154 jetliner carrying a Polish official delegation crashed near Smolensk in the morning of April 10, 2010. The crash killed all the 96 people aboard, including the Polish president and his wife. The Polish delegation planned to attend the memorial service for Polish prisoners of war executed by NKVD.